Educational internationalism, universal human rights, and international organisation: International Relations in the thought and practice of Robert Owen

Davies, Thomas

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“…Jouannet (2012: 177) identifies the creation of the ILO as a turning point in the doctrinal history of international law because it was the long-awaited IO devoted to working-class interests. Calls for an IO dealing with labour legislation can be traced back to the 19th century and were made by social reformers such as Robert Owen (1771–1853), trade unions and socialist parties (Davis, 2014). An institutional predecessor of the ILO was the International Association for Labour Legislation (IALL) (founded in 1900), a non-governmental expert organization that advocated for the prohibition of night work for women (Rodgers et al, 2009: 4).…”

Section: Interwar Welfarism: the Ilo And The League Of Nationsmentioning

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The social-democratic roots of global governance: Welfare internationalism from the 19th century to the United Nations

Steffek

Holthaus

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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Welfare internationalism was and still is one of the most powerful justifications for establishing international organizations. It suggests that public international organizations should cater to the material needs of individuals, rather than solve conflicts among states. In this article, we trace the origins of welfare internationalism, challenging the dominant narrative that depicts it as a projection of the British welfare state or the American New Deal to the globe. We show that welfare internationalism emerged earlier and combined ideational elements of very different origins. Notions of professional colonial administration migrated to the international context and dovetailed with a cosmopolitan interpretation of 19th-century public unions as caretakers of citizen interests. Reform socialist approaches to the social question inspired domestic and international developments simultaneously, leading to the foundation of the International Labour Organization, which became a crucial venue for the promulgation of welfare internationalism. We thus document how international theorists and practitioners of the early 20th century established a new perspective on international affairs, emanating from individuals and their needs. That perspective came to rival the traditional conception of international politics as intergovernmentalism and delivered important building blocks for the (self-)legitimation of the League of Nations and the United Nations.

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Section: Interwar Welfarism: the Ilo And The League Of Nationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The social-democratic roots of global governance: Welfare internationalism from the 19th century to the United Nations

Steffek

Holthaus

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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The reception of Robert Owen's thought in ninteenth- and twentieth-century Italy

Gioia

Soliani

2020

History of European Ideas

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World Order Transformation from the Grassroots: Global South Social Movements and the Transcendence of Established Approaches to International Change

Davies

2024

International Political Sociology

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In contrast to traditional top-down perspectives, this article aims to shed alternative light on the prospects for change in global order through evaluating how perspectives offered among social movements located in the Global South consider how change can take place beyond established approaches. With reference to perspectives offered among the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, the article elucidates a model of global political change that transcends reformist and revolutionary dynamics, and which bypasses dominant state and intergovernmental institutions. The analysis highlights the ontological divide between these approaches and reformist and revolutionary perspectives, given their pluriversality drawing on concepts that to date have received inadequate attention in the study of international relations. The article further considers how these approaches—given their deep roots in long-established communitarian practices and their pluriversality—may be addressing today's crisis of global order from the bottom-up in ways that may avoid limitations of previous change agendas.

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Educational internationalism, universal human rights, and international organisation: International Relations in the thought and practice of Robert Owen

Cited by 5 publications

References 58 publications

The social-democratic roots of global governance: Welfare internationalism from the 19th century to the United Nations

The social-democratic roots of global governance: Welfare internationalism from the 19th century to the United Nations

The reception of Robert Owen's thought in ninteenth- and twentieth-century Italy

World Order Transformation from the Grassroots: Global South Social Movements and the Transcendence of Established Approaches to International Change

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